Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

  1. After the elder was stretched, thou being oped for a bride.
  2. Come, then, tell us the why in thee such change be reported
  3. That to thy lord hast abjured faithfulness owed of old?
Door.
  1. Never (so chance I to please Caeci1ius owning me now-a-days!)
  2. Is it my own default, how so they say it be mine;
  3. Nor can any declare aught sin by me was committed.
  4. Yet it is so declared (Quintus!) by fable of folk;
  5. Who, whenever they find things done no better than should be,